Just throwing my two pence in... i've just retired my windows XP PC now because i tried out DOSbox on my win7x64 machine (which has an old fashioned DB9 serial port!) and it works great. On an older pc i had the same issue i'm getting now, if you turn the 29b on, and let it go into 'remote mode' and dont send it any commands in the first 30 seconds, you'll get an 'i/o timeout error 46' on the display, so you have to reboot it. Just turn the 29b on, run promlink and hit ctrl+p, this will just blip a command to the programmer to stop it timing out. The programmer is then good for the rest of the time you choose to use it, whether its doing stuff or idle, it wont timeout again. Strange little quirk, but i'm very happy it works great on DOSbox under win7 x64, very simple to setup, just run the config batch file and configure the com port and you're done! I mount d:\ as my roms directory on my hard drive, but you have to remember that promlink/dosbox only sees the file listing as it was when the program was first run, if you add or move files around in windows then drop back into dosbox/promlink, it wont see the file changes.. enjoy! Andrew Welburn http://www.andys-arcade.com On 22/06/2013 22:50, Joe Magiera wrote:
I think this was asked before and I didn't have Windows 7 at the time so I didn't follow it, so I apologize, but I need to ask again.
Has anyone successfully got a Data I/O 29B to work on a Windows 7 machine? If so, any tips or tricks you can share that you had to do to get it to work?
Joe
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